scorecardresearch
Saturday, July 19, 2025
TopicAbhijeet Banerjee

Topic: Abhijeet Banerjee

Modi govt should spend more to support people, says Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

India’s total spending on health has remained stagnant at around 1.5% of GDP in the last 4 years. The Modi govt is projecting an increase to 1.8% this financial year & to 2.5% by 2025.

Video messages by Abhijit Banerjee nudged Covid symptom reporting in Bengal, report says

Working paper authored by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and 7 others says celebrity messaging managed to get more people to report Covid symptoms, practise hygiene.

Duflo & Banerjee say NRC-CAA ‘risky’, Naushad Forbes tells industry, speak truth to power

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

The data NCRB left out, and Fadnavis & Khattar play a game they’re bound to win

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Hegde’s dig at ‘NYAY proponent’, Kapil Sibal’s advice to Modi and Khattar on his hobby

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Nobel for Abhijit Banerjee and co shows how Economics as a discipline is changing

The 2019 Economics Nobel prize winners are 3 "poverty fighters" who defy the notion that economists are merely upholders of the free market.

On Camera

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.